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# אָרַג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H707

**weave** — used 13 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

weave [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/707/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָרַג: vb. weave [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/707/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. weave (Mish. id. cf. Ph. ארג weaver)— Impf. 2 fs. תַּאַרְגִי Ju 16:13, 3 mpl. יֶאֱרֹ֑גוּ Is 59:5; Pt. אֹרֵג Ex 28:32 + 4 times; pl. אֹרְגִים Is 19:9 + 5 times; אֹרְגוֹת 2 K 23:7;—weave cloth, etc. Is 19:9 (in Egypt) 2 K 23:7, Samson’s locks Ju 16:13; metaph. weave spider’s web = intrigue Is 59:5; most often Pt. used as subst. = weaver Is 38:12; work of the weaver מעשׂה א׳ Ex 28:32; 39:22, 27 cf. 35:35; weavers’ beam (pl.) מְנוֹר א׳ 1 S 17:7; 2 S 21:19 1 Ch 11:23; 20:5 (sim. of huge spear-shaft)—cf. also sub יַעֲרֵי ארגים.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of weavers (4); a weaver (2); of a weaver (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 19:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.9/#tree)

וּבֹ֛שׁוּ עֹבְדֵ֥י פִשְׁתִּ֖ים שְׂרִיק֑וֹת וְאֹרְגִ֖ים חוֹרָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.be.ashamed \[those.who\].work of.flax(es) combed and \[those.who\].weave white.cloth

*JPS 1917:* Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave cotton, shall be ashamed.

[Exodus 39:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.22/#tree)

וַיַּ֛עַשׂ אֶת־מְעִ֥יל הָאֵפֹ֖ד מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה אֹרֵ֑ג כְּלִ֖יל תְּכֵֽלֶת׃

*Word for word:* and he.made (et) the.robe of the.ephod \[the\].work of.a.weaver an.entirety of.violet.stuff

*JPS 1917:* And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/707.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/707/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).